Salmon Hats (2024)
Salmon Hats is a scrolling text-score. The medium was chosen to accommodate r a performance that was improvised and indeterminate, combining acoustic instruments with nonlinear Modular synthesisers. The networked scrolling score allowed for a “composed”, precise coordination of the instruments while both gradually evolving and periodic, blocks of texture. The approach allowed for creation of a “middle-ground” improvised/structured composition, with a high degree of performer freedom combined with the sort of coordination and rapid sectional changes more typical of traditionally scored music.
The score included instructive and allusive textual indications, as well as graphical indications variously for players, section boundaries and events.
The score included instructive and allusive textual indications, as well as graphical indications variously for players, section boundaries and events.
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A comparison of the score to a spectrogram of the performance indicates that the approach was effective as a strategy to coordinate a quasi-improvised performance combining both transitional and sectional structures.
The work was performed telematically as part of the NOWNET ARTS CONFERENCE 2025 with performers in Perth, Western Australia and Stanthorpe, Queensland using the Decibel Scoreplayer’s Wide-Area Network capability (2016). Performances2024 Black Zenith (Brian O’Reilly and Darren Moore – Modular Synthesisers), Lindsay Vickery – soprano saxophone and electronics, Stuart James – piano and electronics, Craig Pedersen – bass guitar)
30 Aug 2025 Clocked Out (Erik Griswold – Piano and Vanessa Tomlinson – Percussion), Lindsay Vickery – bass clarinet and electronics, Stuart James –electronics, Craig Pedersen – Trumpet and Mary Rapp - double bass) |
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